This blog began as a way to follow us as we drove across the United States from Charleston, SC to Bellingham, WA and continued as we explored our new home in in the Pacific Northwest. Now it follows us as we move to Europe to Eindhoven, Netherlands with dog and baby in tow!

Sunday, October 13, 2013

Lake Wenatchee Leavenworth

October 12-13, 2013

It was a beautiful fall day to drive over Stevens Pass in the Cascade Mountains for a relaxing Lake Wenatchee cabin visit and to go to Leavenworth Oktoberfest.

We stopped at 59er Diner for lunch & milkshakes before heading to the cabin.

The wood stock when we first got to the cabin

I love the Adirondack
chairs around the firepit.

The outhouse

How many
engineers does it take to start a chainsaw?

Chain-sawing
time

Time to refuel

This wagon came
in very handy transporting cut wood logs back to the shed. It just needed a
little more air put in the tires.

Woodsy close-ups

And now the
manly man portion of the show, chopping the larger logs into quarters with the
axe.

Joe got it on the first try!

Joe wood
chopping video action

Jorge's
turn!

Time for
more chainsaw action

Men will be men.

The wood stock
when we finished our afternoon chopping.

All in a hard
day’s work.

We went over to
Leavenworth to go to Oktoberfest.

We had a few
beers. Jackie caught up with a childhood Wisconsin
friend Tracy after 20 years apart. Her fiancé and 2 friends also from West
Bend, WI were great company.

Sunday morning we went for a walk down to the trail along the shore of Lake Wenatchee.Chance exploring the neighbor’s dock

Dirty Face Mountain reflection

Lake Wenatchee reflections panorama

Family out canoeing

Cascades & Lake Wenatchee

Dirty Face Mountain reflection

Lake Wenatchee looking east

Cascade Mountains & Dirty Face Mountain reflections

Cascade Mountains & Dirty Face Mountain reflections at the boat lift.

After the short walk along the shore, we finished up stocking the wood.

We had another great stay at the Haney cabin on Lake Wenatchee!

Before heading
home, we went to hike the Hidden Lake Trail which we had tried to find in
snowshoes in March. It was much easier to find the trailhead today in October.

Some trees were still
down in the lake

Joe & Chance
investigating Hidden Lake

South side of
trail around Hidden Lake with Dirty Face Mountain in the distance

The trees &
grasses reflected into Hidden Lake

Clear waters now
picking up the reflections of the blue sky and clouds in Hidden Lake

I love the
reflection of the yellow trees

Cascading cold
water on the trail

Visible tree in the clear Hidden Lake waters

Yellow mirror
image

Black dog
running through the fall ferns

Joe & Jorge
hiking at Hidden Lake in yellow fall trees

Chance walking the water logged
tree trunks

Hidden Lake fall colors

Reflected tree and mountain line
on the Hidden Lake waters

Reflected tree on the Hidden Lake
waters

Chance running through the fall
foliage

We made one more stop at 59er Diner before heading home. Gotta help keep their yearly milkshake count.